Discipline

The Indiana Supreme Court has ordered the 30-day no pay suspension of the Marion County traffic judge who’s admitted
he imposed excessive fines and treated people unfairly in his court partly because he wanted to discourage future litigants
from exercising their constitutional right to trial.

New attorney advertising rules adopted recently by the Indiana Supreme Court have some lawyers throughout the state worried
that they’re being forced to change their law firm names from what’s historically been allowed.

By the time Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi faces a disciplinary hearing on alleged misconduct about how he publicly
discussed pending cases, he’ll have finished his term and will no longer be prosecutor in the state’s largest
county.

The Indiana Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Commission argues that a hearing officer’s recommendation of a public
reprimand against Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney is inadequate and the elected official should receive a one-year
suspension.

Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney should be publicly reprimanded for violating four professional conduct rules in his
handling of civil forfeiture matters as a private attorney while simultaneously prosecuting those same criminal defendants,
according to a hearing officer the Indiana Supreme Court appointed to examine disciplinary charges against the prosecutor.

The Indiana Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a lawyer for what happened to his license when he left private practice
to become a full-time prosecutor in northwest Indiana, but the disciplinary action has split the state’s justices on
whether a more severe punishment was warranted.

Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney should be publicly reprimanded for violating four professional conduct rules in his
handling of civil forfeiture matters as a private attorney while simultaneously prosecuting those same criminal defendants,
according to hearing officer appointed by the Indiana Supreme Court.

A Marion Superior judge presiding over the county’s traffic court faces four judicial misconduct charges as a result
of his general handling of traffic infraction cases and one suit in particular, where the state justices have described him
as being “biased.”

The Indiana Supreme Court handed down a private reprimand to a Shelby County attorney who engaged in misconduct by hiring
a nonlawyer inmate to help research and prepare a post-conviction relief petition for another client.